A Dark Day for America

The PAC Perspective by Ted Flint

“Charlie Kirk captured the hearts and minds of America’s young people,” exclaimed a caller to a local talk radio program. That’s what made him a threat to the Left and the Master they serve. Progressives know the importance of influencing the next generation. That’s why so many of them are drawn to academia. Kirk was a young man who gave voice to millions of college aged young people who believe they do not have a voice in the nation’s universities which have become left-wing indoctrination centers. Kirk also dedicated his life to spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ. That is why he was gunned down in the prime of life by a deranged killer.

According to videos posted on social media shortly after the attack, Kirk was engaging in a back and forth with a student about mass shootings involving transgender people when he was shot. “Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?” Kirk was asked. “Too many,” he responded. The student said that there have been five, and continued, “Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?” Kirk replied, “counting or not counting gang violence?” In the next instant a single shot rang out, and the young husband and father of two was gone.

Of all the political commentary in the hours and days after Kirk’s death, I didn’t hear the Christian perspective on the murder until I saw an Instagram post by famed author and fellow Christian Eric Metaxas. Metaxas correctly pointed out that God is sovereign, and sometimes he permits evil things to happen. And that is what transpired September 10th on a sunny college campus in Orem, Utah – an act of evil.

As 9/11 showed us, there are people in this world bent on our destruction. As St. Paul so keenly observed in his letter to the Ephesians: “We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. “Oftentimes, these battles manifest in the physical.

Charlie Kirk was a young man with a vision. A tireless defender of constitutional freedoms and the America First movement, Kirk founded Turning Point USA, an organization dedicated to introducing a new generation of Americans to the importance of liberty, which is constantly under attack from America’s enemies. Too many young Americans are being drawn to ideologies that do not mesh with the ideals of a constitutional republic. Two examples: Marxism and radical Islam, each preaches violent revolution.

As is normally the case, there is a political angle to the assassination and the attempted assassinations of President Trump. Have you noticed that all the violence is coming from one direction?

Leftist pundits and columnists are blaming President Trump and even Kirk himself for contributing to the toxic political atmosphere that led to Kirk’s tragic end. Nonsense. According to a relative of the human offal who is suspected of pulling the trigger, the shooter admitted to being radicalized by Antifa. They burned down cities and destroyed millions of dollars of property in the wake of the George Floyd killing. That is how the Left operates: they employ violence as a means to an end; our side holds prayer vigils.

We are in a war, lamented Eric Metaxas, and in war, there are casualties. Charlie Kirk was a casualty. Sadly, he may not be the last. In Cambodia, the communist Pol Pot exterminated a third of the population. If you have three people and eliminate one of them, what kind of effect does that have on the remaining two? It terrorizes them. Kirk’s murder was an act of terrorism meant to muzzle opposition to the Left’s agenda. It will not. We have a Bill of Rights that guarantees freedom of speech. And that speech will NEVER be abridged.

Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old who allegedly murdered Kirk, is facing felony charges, including aggravated murder which carries the possibility of the death penalty. Hopefully, he receives swift prosecution and death for his actions. The punishment needs to fit the crime. He is fortunate to live in a country that guarantees him the right to a trial and to be judged by a jury of his peers. That is more than he gave Kirk.